"He did something similarly disgusting with a (then) 15 year old" Hang on... what? Do I read this statement right: that Slater created a sexualised (maybe even pornographic) image of a minor? There are words for that sort of thing, and they normally get ...
I think that, before you all get too excited, you should take a deep breath and wait for any actual facts about the matter to emerge. I am reminded of a time a few years ago that allegations of impropriety were made of a Minister: in that case, one David ...
"Damn, that phaser isn't working. The bloke with the funny ears must have sold me a dud."
I think it's high time that those who sold NZ out to foreigners find out how the Nazis felt at the *other* Nuremberg - the one *after* the war.
I don't give a flying duck for boy-racers' rights but as one of those who's taxes pay for our Police I think this plan makes no sense. Instead of crushing them (which costs money) confiscate them and auction them to the public (which raises money)
Not much a law (or a jury) can do if the Police send the wrong person to court. I'd be all in favour of the Police and CYFS being given more teeth and being more pro-active in protecting vulnerable children.
What about all the sickening child abuse cases where Section 59 was used as a defence, then? I'm surprised you don't remember the so-called "Timaru Lady" case. That defence is no longer available, and therefore scumbags who abuse children can't escape ...
Speak for yourself. The only people I see glorifying child abuse are vermin like McCoskrie.
Looking at Serpico's comment, above, I'd say Sue Bradford made a valid point.
You make very valid points. It is not Obama's fault - but it is his problem to deal with - that the American public have been dumbed down to such an extent that they have no stomach for anything other than discrete, processed Change McNuggets rather than ...
The most practical thing the government could do to defray the cost of the DPB is to get serious about making sure liable parents pay what they owe. Only when it is no longer economic for deadbeats and deserters to dump their children and run will this ...
"the April ones would have been cancelled last December." Citation needed. It would perhaps be an interesting exercise for someone to program a tax cut calculator showing earners how much their tax cuts under National would have compared with the tax cuts ...
"People are investing in the sock market again." An ideal investment for the well-heeled, no doubt.
Steve: "Perhaps, the phrase's origin is in English and it was never really used as a Latin phrase." I believe the phrase was popularised, if not first coined, by W S Gilbert in the libretto to "The Mikado". The phrase "short, sharp shock" is also from the ...
"So which country was the first to elect a non openly homosexual leader I wonder??" Singapore, in 1959.
Hector: "I must say I'm actually quite surprised at the sheer volume of moral outrage over this!" It looks like your problem could be timing. Your group might be a handful of harmless pro-worker activists, but (if a report in this morning's paper is to be ...
"where is the wailing over the Billion dollars missing from the ACC acounts?" Missing? It wasn't collected in the first place: it's in taxpayers' pockets. It's interesting to see that, less than a month after the election, the outgoing government are being...
Randal: don't hold your breath waiting for an early election. Remember that turkeys don't vote for an early Christmas. Unless Obama pulls off a financial miracle and staves off the looming recession in America, our economy will flounder along with theirs; ...
"I must say, I was most disappointed to see my name on the list of signatures that McKroskie presented - even though I never actually signed the damn thing." I am entirely unsurprised that the bashers resorted to that sort of tactic. Locally, when the ...
This looks like it would have been a good election for either party to lose, because whichever party does win will have to tread carefully around the minefield that the Bush administration in America have left strewn across the economic landscape. One mis-...
"unfurling a protest banner in Tiananmen Square, Beijing" Good on him for doing so. If only some National or Labour MPs had sufficient courage to stand up for what is right in such a manner.
Well, G, I just so happen to have a piece of artwork which your good mate Don Brash signed but didn't paint. You may recognise it if you see it: its title is "This Note is Legal Tender for Twenty Dollars".
Steve: in the interest of correct spelling, it should be "oversight", not "oversite". [lprent: That is what happens when you lean on the spell checker too heavily.]
Scribe: "Yep, the Tories were so busy repressing minorities that our first female PM was from the National Party." I wasn't aware that women were in a minority in this country in the first place.
Strangely enough, I don't see any erosion of the freedoms that I exercise; indeed, the only "freedom" that seems to have been lost is the "freedom" of a handful of bestial sub-humans to beat their children half to death with stockwhips, wooden blocks and ...
Barnsley: "there is no story. There never was." Keep on telling yourself that, and you may even begin believing it yourself. You'll have a much harder road trying to get anyone else to believe it, though. "We would love to see wages drop" is a smoking gun ...
"how does one make a comment at the blog No Right Turn?" It's easy. Find the blog's RSS feed, open up the relevant entry, click on "Post a new comment" and type in the comment you wish to make. I'll even make it easy for you and post a sample link: http://...
"The Labour Party is determined to give benefits to those who donâ€Ââ„¢t even need them (Working for Families, being a prime example)" Well, damn those evil communistic tax cuts. Thank goodness your precious National Party aren't ...
To Seamonkey Madness: I do not believe the media in New Zealand are anywhere near as tolerant of child pornography as you seem to believe they are.
Hinamanu, if you have evidence for the claims you have made, you owe it to any children this person may be in contact with, now or in the future, to bring this evidence to the attention of the Police and CYPS staff in his area. That would do much more good...
I would sincerely hope that none of the people who oppose the Electoral Finance Bill on the grounds of a perceived curtailment of their right to speak out would have any support for this particularly pernicious attack on free speech.
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